Dynamic Security

Access Control

Designing an access control system shouldn’t be made as easy as installing wire and magnetic locks. The access control system hardware is used by every employee and visitor to your facility. As such, care should be taken by the installation team to ensure the final product meets aesthetic as well as funcational requirements. At Dynamic Security we assist clients with selection and design access control systems utilizing multiple criteria:

1. A careful review with our client to ensure access control plan hasn’t any leaks.

2. Careful review of finishes and existing conditions so that our talented locksmiths can recommend solutions that fit in with difficult aesthetic requirements.

3. Work through a selection process to ensure products and architecture chosen are affordable yet scalable to meet future needs

4. Consideration of the type of card that will serve the client for a long time to come. Changing card types is expensive and disruptive to business!

Credential Management

There are many differing card or credential options available today. Our Federal government is pushing hard to create secure, portable identification credentials that can be utlized in multiple systems. Programs such as FIPS 201, CAC and TWIC are examples of these federal programs. While it may be a long time before such initiatives start to impact private employers, its not too early for security experts to educate themselves on these important technologies. Dynamic Security can help you find the right card to fit your needs today while planning for the future. Below is a brief outline of some of the card types available today: <Picture of smart cards>

IP Video

While many past forecasters have prognosticated that IP video would dominate the surveillance market by now, reports continue to flow back that this is not yet the case? Our goals is to take the mystery out of the decision to use IP based products and help our clients decide when the time is right to move to this new architecture. For a detailed treatment of issues around IP Video, take a look at what was recently written in the NYC ASIS journal by our own Bart Kartoz. While we are strong believers that future video will be transported almost unilaterally over IP networks. We can help your company build a strategy to take advantage of IP based video transport without wasting existing investments.

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IP enabled Emergency Voice Calling (IoIP)

Surprisingly, many institutions that have started using IP based transport for video are still using analog connections for voice communications. Because voice communication uses a small fraction of the bandwidth used for a video stream, it would seem natural that it would evolve earlier and more quickly. Today there are options to take the benefits of IP and incorporate them into high quality voice systems. The benefits are multi-fold:

1. Crystal clear voice communication

2. “Intelligent” feature sets at the phone/voice unit. (e.g. automated diagnostics and event sensing)

3. Lowered cable installation costs

4. Available redundancy over direct connections.

Intrusion Detection

Intrusion detection has many layers. At its most simplistic form a dial-out burglar alarm system is a type of intrusion detection. In its more complex forms, intrusion detection may include perimeter sensors that differentiate background events such as animals, wind or rain, from attempts to cross onto the property from the public side by a would-be purpertrator. Perimeter intrusion detection is another area of security technology that has been massively effected by improvemnts in signal processing technology. Today’s products are easier and less costly to install, have higher probability of detection (PD) and lower Neucence Alarm Rates (NAR). This is especially true of well designed systems which may employ multiple-factor methods of alarm detection. Dynamic Security can help you design, test and evaluate technologies to protect your perimeter. We highly recommend pilot testing for all perimeter intrusion system deployements and can work to complete these in short order at reasonable cost. <Perimeter Intrusion picture>